Dehradun, June 1 -- The colourful Masaai tribe

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

One evening long ago at Mumbai's Juhu Beach, Richa asked me what comes right after the Arabian Sea when looking westwards towards the setting sun. I told her it was Africa and there was nothing else in between, but water. And after that we just wanted to go to Africa, the continent India geologically broke away from around 150 million years ago. It's hard to forget your first safari in Africa and that is what I want more and more people to experience for themselves as we experienced ourselves and how it changed our perspectives, our personas and our lives in the years to come.

We had done a lot of preparations for this trip, right from Yellow...